Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1938 — Page 1

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 144

HAMILTON PREDICTS STATE G. 0. P. GAIN; DEMOCRATS MEET

‘ — ® Republican Chieftain

Forecasts Victory In State Race.

DIRECTS PARLEY

Cornfield Rally at Capehart Farms to Follow Talks.

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: “Indiana will elect a Republican ‘Senator and a lot of Republican Congressmen this - fall,” National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton,

here for an 11-state campaign strat--

egy. meeting, predicted today. Republican leaders from several states heard his prediction. Later, they were to attend a-closed session

to outline plans for ‘the fall campaign, and tonight and tomorrow, they will participate in a gigantic “cornfield conference” near Washington, Ind. Among these were Rep. James W. Wadsworth, New York, keynote speaker for: the Capeheart Farms rally; Rep. Joseph Martin, Massachusetts, national G. O. P. Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, and Senator John G. Townsend, Delaware, Senatorial campaign Mommittee chairman.

Unified Policy Sought

Also participating were Glenn Frank, former University of Wisconsin president and now G. O. P. national program committee chairman, and Miss Marion Martin of Maine, head of the women's section of the national committee. “President Roosevelt's trip across the nation hasn’t won any votes for the Democrats,” Mr. Hamilton said. “His ‘purge’ Democrats will react-in-favor of the Republican Party next fall.” More than 100 Congressional and Senatorial nominees, State Chairmen and Vice Chairmen and other party leaders were expected to attend the strategy forum at 4 p. m. today at the Claypool Hotel. Earlier in: the afternoon, Republican women leaders from the 11 states were to have their own discussion. The Congressional forum was called by Chairman Hamilton to attempt to work out a unified policy on campaign issues. Most of the leaders here for the forum were planning to remain here tonight ‘and then join in the cornfield conference at Capehart Farms tomorrow afternoon.

Reports Women Active

In a general discussion at a press conference, Rep. Martin said he was confident that Republican ranks in the “House would be boosted by “at least 70 new Congressmen.” Earlier, Mr, Hamilton had predicted a gaih of from 45 to 50. - . Miss Martin, who recently completed a tour of 34 states; told the group that Republican women throughout the nation are “really (Turn to Page Seven)

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of anti-New Deal

Liquor and Primary Laws Topics at French Lick.

STRESS HARMONY

Schricker to Fore as Prospect for Governor.

By TOM OCHILTREE Times Staff Writer

FRENCH LICK, Aug. 26—Dernocratic leaders of various ranks, in opening the two-day meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, today played golf and discussed informally the party’s future policy on liquor control and the direct primary. 3 This meeting, which attracted several hundred to the hotel of Thomas D. Taggart, former Democratic National Committeeman for Irdiana, is to feature further peace overtures between Governor Townsend and U. S. Senator VanNuys. While most of the program has been designed for entertainment, the State Committee, Senator VanNuys and other members of the

State ticket are expected to discuss

detailed plans for the fall campaign. Speculation over possible candidates for the nomination for Governor in 1940 also occupied the attention of visitors. Among those whose chances were discussed were Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Welfare director; Clarence Jackson, Gross Income Tax division director; Dick Heller, the Governor's Executive Secretary; . Omer Stokes Jackson, State Chairman and Attorney General, and Lieut. Gov. Henry PF. Schricker. Many: party workers indicated that Lieut. Gov. Schricker, whose withdrawal from the race for the Senatorial nomination aided in bringing a peace between the Governor and Senator VanNuys, now is in the best strategic position.

Plan for Rallies Discussed

An 18-hole golf tournament for men was held on the lower course this morning and a party for women visitors is to be held at 2:30 p. An entertainment program has been arranged for tonight, followed by a dance. The State Committee meeting is scheduled for 10 a. m. tomorrow. Members are expected to discuss filling vacancies in the State Headquarters organization and the proposed campaign plan for calling a series of Congressional district rallies to be conducted under the sponsorship .of the Indiana Young Democrats. State Chairman Omer Stokes Jackson is to address association members at 11 a. m. tomorrow and state printing laws are to be dis(Continued on Page Seven)

INCENDIARISM | (CHARGE MADE

AFTER BLAZE

Mystery Fire ‘Set,’ Officer Says; Three Families Routed.

GARDEN HOSE SEVERED |§

Started by ‘Some Person Against Germans,” Says Owner’s Wife.

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A fire, declared by Fire Lieut. John: Monihan to have been incendiary, early today caused $1500 damage to the home of Wilhelm Eckstein, 1430 Silver Ave. The Eckstein family and neighbors on each side were forced to leave their homes. Mrs. Freida Eckstein, who came from Germany 14 years ago and who became a naturalized American citizen in 1930, said she believed the fire was set by “someone who doesn’t like Germans.” Both she and the neighbors on each side said they had no knowledge of any neighborhood misunderstanding. “No Question Fire Set” Lieut. Monihan, of Engine House 19, said there “is no quesiion but what the fire was set. The back porch was blazing fiercely when we arrived and there was nothing there which would have ignited accidentally. The police and Fire Prevention Bureau will begin an investigation at once.”

An unidentified man, who said he |.

saw the blaze two blocks away, ran to the Eckstein home about 2 a. m., knocked on the door and shouted to awaken the family. Mr. and Mrs. Eckstein and their children, Ruth, 13; Fred, 11, and Horst, 9, ran outside. Mr. Eckstein ran out to the side of the house and attempted to turn on the garden hose to fight the fire, but found that the hose had been severed six inches from the house connection. Meanwhile,” Mr. and Mrs. Tony Motsinger, and family, 1426 Silver Ave., and Mrs. Albert . Hefferman,

and family, 1434 Silver Ave. were

awakened and left their homes,

‘Insurance Covers Loss Three weeks ago, Mrs. said, someone wrote an :anti-Ger-man phrase on the back fence with a greasy crayon. She said she has been unable to wash it off. She said that her husband, who for 28 years has been a mechanic

m. | at the West Indianapolis Bleaching

Co., also is a naturalized American citizen and has owned the home since 1910. She said insurance covers the loss, which she estimated at $1500. “Neither my husband nor I belong to any German-American society or organization of any kind now and we never have,” she said. “We are good American citizens.” Lieut. Monihan, who made his report that the fire was incendiary to Battalion Chief Harvey Keppel and Capt. Guy Lewis, said Te were no electric wires on the back

porch which could have shorted to

start the fire, and no waste which could have ignited spontaneously.

6 ‘Higher-Ups’ Face Arrest In Roasting’ of Convicts

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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26 (U. P.). —Coroner Charles H. Hersch announced today that he would arrest six “higher-ups” and guards at the Fhiladelphia County Prison and break the case of the “roasted” convicts “wide open” before night, . Coroner Hersch, under an ancient law, had taken complete charge of

the prison where four convicts were.

roasted to death last week-end and where 21 escaped the same fate because they were not subjected to the “disciplifte” for a hunger strike an hour longer. He had questioned preemtorily

REPUBLICAN STRATEGY PARLEYS BEG .

all the guards, retaining the day side force at the prison to subject each man to separate interrogation. After he had finished, he announced that he had sworn to six more warrants. He specified that some of the warrants were for “higher-ups,” namely the officials who had given the orders for turning on the steam full blast in the “Klondike” build-

ing after the strike leaders had

been locked in its cramped cells. William B. Mills, prison superintended, remained in his office. If there “is any interference with my investigation on his (Mills’) part, he

| will be removed,” the Coroner said.

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G. O. P. strategy was outlined by State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt (center) at informal discussions before the, parley at the Claypool Hotel got under way. With him is John Ruckeishaus, State Advisory

Committee chairman ( (le

left), and Rep. I

“White (R. Ohio).

Eckstein

Nearly 500 taxpayers today shouted disapproval of Marion County budget requests for 1939 as the County Council began deliberations at the Court

Times Photo.”

_ House. - The Councilmen, left to right, are George Kincaid, Cortez Blue, David H. Badger, Harry Hohlt; Albert Deluse and George W. Fox.

6-MEN ENTER BANDIT SEARCH

Suspect Released by Police; Bullet Only Clue in Bank Holdup.

BULLETIN Police today questioned a man in connection with the holdup (of the Merchants Bank branch yesterday bur released him after he had satisfactorily accounted for his actions. At the same time G-Men announced * they had entered the case. :

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A bullet was the only clue police had today in their search for the bandit who yesterday staged Indianapolis’ first bank holdup since the John Dillinger gang raid on the Massachusetts Ave. State Bank in 1933. Entering the Merchants National | Bank branch at 38th and Salem Sts. shortly before 3 p. m., the gunman ordered three employees intp the vault: He took $1500 in $1 bills, a bag containing silverware and other. valuables, and an undetermined amoint of cash from a drawer. Before he left, the bandit told the employees not to turn around and emphasized his command by firing a shot from an automatic pistol. The bullet wedged under -a metal strip around the vault door, preventing it from ricocheting in the vault into which the employees had “been forced. : The bandit fled to a waiting car and drove south on Salem St. Ralph Prange, 1001 Fairfield Ave., the manager, said the loot taken from the drawer “may be as much as $1000.”

Shower Ends

Hopi Indians’ Rain Prayer

SHONGOPOVI, Ariz., Aug. 26 (U. P.) =—It rained today in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi .Indians

hardly had finished ‘their snake dance, their tribal prayer for rain, when the Hopi Reservation got a soaking. Many tourists had driven hundreds of miles to see the Indians perform the ceremony in which they carry live rattlesnakes in their hands or wrap them around their bodies. Legend has it ‘that rain always comes soon after the Hopis quit dancing.

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P.) —Secretary of Agriculture Wallace announced today that :- the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. will begin immediate purchase of wheat for ex- - port and relief distribution.

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DR. FRANK THINKS IT OVER .

usually authoritative newspaper Prager Abend Zeitung reported today that Germany had informed

European powers she desired peace but that prolonged delay in solution of the Czech minority crisis would prompt Berlin to support the Sudeten Germans “with all of her resources.” Meanwhile, leaders of the Hungarian minority have agreed to form a common front with the. Sudeten German party in negotiations the Government, it was reported day. - ’ ‘This news of inéieased ‘HungarianGerman friendliness came as the inner political council of the Cabinet adopted a new program to be offered: as a basis for minority | negotiations. Under the program - approved by the inner council of the Cabinet: last night, the Government intends to offer further sacrifices by way. of autonomous rule not only to the German but to other minorities. But primarily, it was hoped that the new program would enable the: - (Continued on Page Three)

DONALD SMITH GETS NEW TERM ON NLRB

Pennsylvanian Reappointed Despite A. F. of L. Fight.

(Labor News, Page Three)

HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 26 (U. P.) .—President Roosevelt today reappointed Donald Wakefield Smith of vania as a member of the National Labor Relations Board for a term of five years beginning - tomorrow. In Washington, Mr. Smith issued a statement thanking Mr. Roosevelt for his “continued confidence in me” and expressing gratification at the continued opportunity to serve ‘an agency in whose ability to achieve permanent indusftial peace I have the ‘deepest conviction.” Mr. Roosevelt's a fn only a few hours after the American ‘| Federation .of Labor's Executive Council formally opposed the reappointment of Mr. Smith, whom, py said, was biased and lacking in

qualifications.

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® PRAHA, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—The

with [any Foreign “to- | United States sinée the World War.

Mexico Warned by Hull New Nazi Threat Hinted

: IN THE AMERICAS WASHINGTON—U. S. asks arbitration of land seizures. MEXICO CITY--Threat of diplomatic break surprises nation. IN EUROPE PRAHA—Magyars join Henlein in minority fight. LONDON—New warning to Nazis planned in Czech crisis. HENDAYE—Loyalists claim mercury minef are saved. JERUSALEM—16 Arabs killed, 30 wounded in bombing.

IN THE FAR EAST

SHANGHAI—Japanese Army moves nearer Hankow defenses. WASHINGTON—Hull protests Jap attack on American’s plane.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned the Mexican Government today that diplomatic relations between it and this Government were strained because of Mexico's continued confiscation of American-

owned property. The note was one of the longest, and, according to veteran diplomats here, tlie most bluntly worded diplomatic communication delivered to Government by the

“Impossible . . . by Diplomacy”

Secretary Hull reiterated prévious proposals to arbitrate the claims for American-owned i land ex- | propriated by Mexico, but added:

“I find it necessary emphatically to state that, after many years of ‘patient endeavor on the part of this Government to obtain just satisfaction for these claims without success, the Government of the United States’ has regretfully reached the conclusion that it is impossible fo adjust them by diplomacy.” He: called. upon Mexico to. desist from further seizures of Americanowned properties pending a settlement for those,already seized, unless such seizures are accompanied “ arrangements: for adequate, prompt and effective payment.” But the general tome of the note was negative. Mr. Hull said that the United States had received “not only with surprsie, but with profound regret,” the contentions made in Mexico's note of Aug. 3 that there is no rule under international law “which: makes obligatory ithe payment of immediate compensation.” He replied that such expropriation was bald coniiscation, and in violation not only of international law, but of the guarantees contained in the Constitution of every American Republic.

Oil Seizure Not Mentioned As in the note of July 21, he did

‘not mention Mexico's seizure last

sp#ing of oil properties valued at approximately 250 million dollars. The

of which, it said were “chiefly the owners of farms of modérate size with a claimed value of $10,132,388.” “Diplomats here generally agreed ‘that in proposing that the controversy be submitted to arbitration, Mr. Hull was laying the foundation for similar action in the case of the j {Continued en Page Three)

Spegkers Denounce Estravagapre in Public Spending’ at County Budget Hearing; New Political Jobs Assailed.

OBJECTORS ARE CHEERED BY CROWD

Rate Raising Leading

Home Qwners to Poor

House, One Says; Fists Are Shaken in Heated Session at Court House.

A “sit-down strike on

paying unless rates are re-

duced” was threatened today as an estimated 500 taxpayers attended the County Council’s first public hearing on the 1939 budget proposals. These proposals would raise the

rate 12 cents.

The ¢rowd was the largest ever to appear at such a. meeting, County officials said. Scores leaped to their feet at intervals, denouncing what they called “extravagance

in public spending.”

Amid cheers, stamping of fget and shouts, speakers left their seats, and went before the Council table shaking their fists and demanding cuts in the budget proposals “to save

our homes.”

After the meeting, taxpayers’ association representatives urged the crowd to “attend the City Council meetings when they are resumed Monday afternoon.” Walter Horn, representing the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, and William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce ex-

F.D. R. CLAIMS FARLEY ACCORD

‘We Agree,” President Says,®

After Conference on Political Outlook. ge E PARE, 'N. Y. ANE. 26 (U. P. .) —President Roosevelt today that he and Postmaster Gen- | eral James A. Farley were “in com-

plete agreement” after long conver- |:

sations in which the political situations in several states were explored. Beyond that: brief, authorized direct quotation, however, the Chief Executive would not go. Observers, EE rthovss, were of the opinion that “complete agreement” meant that the President would invade Maryland in his campaign against ation of Senator Tydings uch as Mr. Farley yesterday said that he would urge such a course. The President shied away from questions as to whether he would carry the fight to Senator on his home grounds, insisting with a smile that he had made no plans other than those which call for a departure from Hyde Park Monday night for Washington. Asked if he had received invitations to enter the States where the New Deal is an issue in the forth(Continued on Page Seven) ————— ce eeet——

CONTINUED WARMER WEATHER FORECAST

TEMPERATURES 6a. m... 66 10a m.... Fam... "61 lam... Sam... 71 12 (Noom). 9am... 5° 1p mm...

8 80 81 82

Indianapolis temperatures, about six degrees warmer than yesterday, will continue without much change tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau forecast. Both tonight and tomorrow will be fair, the bureau said.

WILLIS GREETS NOTABLES ON ARRIVAL

tive vice president, told those protesting that “your help .is needed on the City budget.” The County Council adjourned its meeting until this afternoon when deliberations on cuts were to start. ; Answering © Councilmen’s

| demands that speakers con-

fine their remarks strictly to

| “constructive suggestions on

cutting’ the budget,” speak ers, one after another, shouted: “We don’t know anything about budgets. That's what were paying High salaries to County officials for—to find out ways to cut expenses. It's your job and we're going to demand that you do it. E. S. Brown, 2752 Winthrop Ave., ‘was cheered when he said: “We have reached the end of the road on raising taxes and that inevitable end is a tax strike. If raising taxes continues, we will all land in the poorhouse.” He assailed bitterly the administration of County and City offices, contending that “there is no ne-

Tydings | cessity for about two-thirds of the

people living off of you and 1. We can’t tolerate such parasites.”

Denounce Political Jobs

Several others whose names were not learned leaped to their feet denouncing the creation of political jobs. ' William McCann, 216 W. Ray St.. warned the Council that “there is an incipient movement being started here and all over Indiana to organize taxpayers for a ‘sit-down’ a on taxes. It is spreading rapidly and ‘alarmingly. It is going to happen and there will be some sad times in the Treasurer's office.” One taxpayer who refused to give his name but said he lived in the 4200 block north in Washington Township, | strode brisky from the crowd to the Council table, shaking his fist in their faces and said: “If County officials do what they apparently intend to do, you are going to have a lot of property on your hands, and you won't be able to sell (Continued on Page Three)